Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.

One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him.

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.